PMCI Platform Management Components Intercommunication

Working Group Chair(s)

Hemal Shah, Broadcom

Patrick Caporale, Lenovo

Working Group Description

The Platform Management Components Intercommunication (PMCI) Working Group defines standards to address “inside the box” communication and functional interfaces between the components of the platform management subsystem.

The group develops the DMTF’s Platform Management standard, which provides a comprehensive, common architecture for improved communication between management subsystem components. The Platform Management Standard, Volumes 1 and 2, has been adopted and published by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) as INCITS 495-2012.

Enabling the monitoring and control of systems when an OS is not available or functioning (for example, when a system is booting, before the OS has loaded, or when the OS is inoperable), these standards allow vendors to design manageability hardware for servers, clients, and mobile systems that do not share platform management sub-system designs and components.